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Van Morrison
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cantautore, polistrumentista e paroliere nordirlandese
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Van Morrison is a male singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland who began his work period in 1958. His musical style encompasses blue-eyed soul, chamber folk, contemporary folk, folk, and folk pop, while also being associated with classic rock, blues, and rock. He is recognized in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame collection.
Among his notable works are "Brown Eyed Girl," "Lit up Inside / Keep 'Er Lit," "Van Morrison -- Guitar Anthology," "Toma Interior," and "Van Morrison Anthology (Songbook)." He has been described as a maverick by conviction and has stated that music is spiritual, whereas the music business is not.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Lit up Inside / Keep 'Er Lit
- Brown Eyed Girl
- Van Morrison -- Guitar Anthology
- Toma Interior
- Van Morrison Anthology (Songbook)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Northern Ireland
- Active from
- 1945-08-31
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,673,691
- Total plays
- 60,899,840
Tags
Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career began in the 1960s. His albums have achieved commercial success in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK Top 40, as well as internationally in countries including Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Morrison has scored top ten albums in the UK across four consecutive decades, most recently with "Latest Record Project, Volume 1" (2021). <a href="h
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,548x
- Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
· 2017 · cited 33,787x
- Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
· 1984 · cited 28,846x
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,656x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,667x
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Quotes
- “Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.”
- “Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.”
- “Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.”
- “Like I say, the way I write songs is, you know, inspirational. I have to wait for it to happen. And when it happens I get lines, and I just write them down, you know. I'm not sort of a Tin Pan Alley sort of songwriter. I just sort of write down what I get - without censoring or questioning what it is and what it means, you know. Like later on I look at what it means, but not at the time.”
- “Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
- “With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way I wrote that one. I don't really have any words to particularly describe the song, sophisticated is probably the word I'm looking for. For me, Moondance is a sophisticated song. Frank Sinatra wouldn't be out of place singing that.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Also known as
- Van the Man , The Belfast Cowboy
- Born
- George Ivan Morrison , ( 1945-08-31 ) 31 August 1945 (age 80) , Belfast , Northern Ireland
- Genres
- Blue-eyed soul Celtic rock R&B folk blues jazz country gospel Christian
- Occupations
- Musician singer songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar harmonica saxophone
- Works
- Van Morrison discography
- Years active
- 1958–present
- Labels
- Decca Parrot Bang Warner Bros. London Mercury Exile Polydor Verve Pointblank Virgin Universal Blue Note Lost Highway Listen to the Lion EMI Manhattan RCA BMG Sony Legacy
- Formerly of
- Them
- Website
- vanmorrison .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Morrison
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Belfast
- Spouse
- Michelle Rocca
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- Celtic music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Official website
- www.vanmorrison.com
- Image
- Van-Morrison.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- birth name
- George Ivan Morrison
- Commons category
- Van Morrison
- date of birth
- 1945-08-31
- topic's main category
- Category:Van Morrison
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- pseudonym
- Van Morrison
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- social media followers
- 449000
- member of
- Them
- name in native language
- Van Morrison
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- topic has template
- Template:Van Morrison
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
Sir George Ivan Morrison, detto Van (Belfast, 31 agosto 1945), è un cantautore, polistrumentista e paroliere britannico. Suona diversi strumenti tra i quali chitarra, armonica a bocca, tastiere, sassofono e occasionalmente anche la batteria. Dopo gli esordi blues rock con i Them, Morrison intraprese una carriera solista in bilico tra la passione giovanile per la musica nera, una forte vena creativa (che lo ha portato a sconfinare spesso in territori jazz) e uno stretto legame con la musica tradizionale della sua terra d'origine. A rendere unico il suo stile contribuiscono la sua caratteristica vocalità e una intensa poetica. La rivista Rolling Stone lo classifica quarantaduesimo nella sua lista dei cento migliori artisti di sempre nonché ventiquattresimo in quella dei cento migliori cantanti. Due suoi album, Astral Weeks e Moondance, compaiono nella lista dei 500 migliori album di sempre, ancora secondo Rolling Stone .
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